Magnus Carlsen: GM Equal Positions
168 dead-draw positions from Magnus Carlsen’s games – level by Stockfish move after move. Try to win them.
168 of 14,738 curated positions
r3r1k1/pp2qp1p/5bp1/2Pp1p2/1P3Q2/P4B2/5PPP/3R1RK1 w - - 0 21Magnus Carlsen’s dead draws
Magnus Carlsen appears in 168 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often late middlegame (65) and middlegame (62), most frequently against Hikaru Nakamura (19), Fabiano Caruana (14), Alireza Firouzja (13). Each one comes from a real game that ended in a draw, and was verified by Stockfish to stay level from both sides of the board for at least eight consecutive moves.
What kind of positions these are
- Late middlegame – 65 positions
- Middlegame – 62 positions
- Endgame – 25 positions
- Minor-piece endgame – 8 positions
Who Magnus Carlsen drew them against
- Hikaru Nakamura – 19 positions
- Fabiano Caruana – 14 positions
- Alireza Firouzja – 13 positions
- Wesley So – 8 positions
- Anish Giri – 7 positions
- Vincent Keymer – 7 positions
Why these are worth playing
A position two grandmasters could not win is the purest test of technique there is: no opening theory, no tactics to remember, just a level board and the question of who understands it better. Play any of them against Stockfish or a human-like Maia bot, or send the position to a friend and find out which of you cracks first.